Everyone is getting so excited as we build towards tomorrow’s match with Blackburn Rovers. It seems like an aeon since we last played, certainly since an aeon since we last won and kept one of those clean sheets. Now we have reset the controls and the team sheet as we try and head for home in the final four month push to promotion.

All Rhodes led to Boro – in the end. Let’s hope all Rhodes then lead to the Premier League. Our new super striker met the press on Thursday and was like a breath of fresh air was his honesty and humility. Now can he walk the walk and grab a goal or two against his former club?

Fanzine 563 and the companion podcast take us right back to the roots and indeed through Rhodes, the routes of the fanzine. Two of the men responsible for putting the moon into fmttm join us in a look back to life at the end of the 80s and the birth of this here fan platform, as it might be termed in these scary 21st century days. Our excuse for this shameless nostalgia is the birthday, of founding father Rob Boal and an artistic reunion for Fly Me Moon man, Alan Morley. More revealed in the pages and podcast.

Joe Nicholson talks to Bernie Slaven about his sold-out book November Spawned a Monster. What else did we chat about in the podcast and fanzine? Let me see, we mentioned Stan-Is-Stan and Mike Baker’s reactions to the long weekend of the Rhodes debacle. Wasn’t it just..

Oh and we should say Fischer was AWOL this month, what will people make of our new cover artist? His work could turn heads. Will he be sacked off or lauded with praise?

Anyway loads of top fan content, by fans, for fans. £1.50 – it’s a steal. On sale around the ground tomorrow and at The Good Food Joint where you can grab your pre match and post match hot pies and meat sandwiches, opposite Dr Browns. Also available at a new shop Sacred Alien Comix and Boro Book Zone Dundas Street, by the Dundas Arcade doors, opposite B&M, Wilson Street side of the Arcade. Pop down for the opening and you might see and hear Dekka the Boro Busker playing at 12 noon.

Have a listen to our podcast, to try before you buy the fanzine.

Come on Boro and Up The Boro

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